IT Capacity Builder Azafady Fort Dauphin, Madagascar
This position offers an excellent opportunity for an IT specialist to gain valuable experience abroad working for a medium sized NGO in the stunning south east of Madagascar. This opportunity would be a positive step to gain experience in order to work with a larger organizations or simply to have a career break. Your skills will be used to deliver simple IT courses to the NGO staff and trouble shoot problems in the day to day running of the current IT systems.
The IT volunteer will spend at least 6 months working with Azafady in and around Fort Dauphin, Madagascar. They will be part of a team of local and international staff and volunteers developing and implementing sustainable development projects in the area. The successful applicant will be expected to work independently to meet the organisation's international media and communications needs. Example tasks include, identifying IT training needs within the NGO, developing courses to meet these, training on a 1:1 basis, trouble shooting difficulties in the day to day IT systems, advising on a broad range of IT systems, co-ordination of material for the web site, advising on IT for video or sound production to the projects, support in updating Google maps relating to project work.
For specific responsibilities, see the section below.
The volunteer will be fully integrated into the team giving them full access to projects, which currently include- school building, hygiene training, HIV education and establishment of sustainable livelihoods. For further details of the projects run by Azafady see www.madagascar.co.uk.
Duties and responsibilities:
The IT Volunteer will work across all departments on the following areas:
• Setting up and maintenance of the various computers used within the busy NGO office
• Setting up and support of email addresses for staff
• Troubleshooting difficulties in the day to day running of the IT system such as the all-important internet connection
• Advise on IT development
• Needs assessment on the training needs of staff regarding IT use and maintenance
• Developing a series of training modules for staff in Word, Excel, Internet, E-mail.
• Training staff in IT
• Co-ordinating website updates with staff across all departments
• Support to staff and volunteers on sound and video programmes and production
• Liaison with UK office on IT equipment procurement
Contract type: Volunteer
Contract duration: a minimum of 6 months
Location: Azafady, Fort Dauphin, Madagascar
Reporting to: Director of Operations
Requirements:
The successful applicant will:
• Have experience of IT preferably at an advisory level
• Demonstrate sound technical knowledge in areas of video and stills programmes and production
• Demonstrate interest in conservation and community development
• Have previous experience working to deadlines and criteria
• Ideally have previous experience living, working or travelling in a developing country, though is not essential
• Be fluent in English. A working knowledge of French is desirable but not essential
• Be capable and comfortable adapting to life in a least developed country with sometimes basic living conditions
• Be able to adjust to life in another culture and a foreign language, and be able to work at all times with cultural sensitivity
• Be able to financially support themselves for a minimum period of 6 months
• Have all necessary equipment to carry out the responsibilities outlined above
Country and organisation background:
Madagascar is the fourth largest island in the world. It has an ethnically diverse population of some 19 million people, and the number of inhabitants is increasing at a rate of about 3% per year. It is one of the world’s poorest countries, ranking 143/177 in the 2008-9 Human Development Report, with more than 70% of the population living below the poverty line.
Isolation of communities and lack of state capacity mean service delivery is extremely poor. Government educational services, extremely limited as they are across the island, rarely reach rural communities. State provided health facilities are seriously under-funded. Island-wide, among rural populations only 35% of people have improved water sources, and just 26% have adequate sanitation facilities (UNICEF, 2008).
Tolagnaro (or Fort Dauphin), where ONG Azafady is based, is an isolated town in the southeast of the island, in Anosy Region. The people of Anosy are one of the poorest ethnic groups in the country. Whilst the government has adopted a detailed strategy paper for poverty reduction, Anosy’s isolation means that little has changed. The region’s population suffers one of the lowest per capita incomes and highest rates of disease, infant mortality (34% in some communities) and illiteracy (over 80%). Diarrhoeal disease, malaria, respiratory and sexually transmitted infections are rife: as many as 3 in 10 children under 5 years old die from easily preventable diseases and illnesses. Average life expectancy is just 59 years, (UNICEF, 2006) and the mortality rate for those under five years is over one in ten (115/1000 live births, UNICEF, 2008 estimate).
Azafady has over 10 years experience of grassroots community development work. The organisation intervenes in Fort Dauphin and surrounding rural communities aiming to alleviate extreme poverty and protect a unique but greatly endangered environment by empowering the poorest people of the region to improve health and wellbeing and establish more sustainable livelihoods. At the heart of Azafady’s work is an integrated approach to community development sensitively built around what are directly expressed to be the most pressing needs of local populations and which maximises their participation. Project activities are focused on the fields of health and sanitation, livelihood diversification and natural resource management. All projects align with and contribute to achievement of the Millennium Development Goals and of the Madagascar Action Plan commitments in these sectors.
Application procedure
Send CV and cover letter to Lisa@azafady.org. Shortlisted applicants will be contacted by email. Interviews will take place with Madagascar team by phone and with the London team in person.
Deadline for application- 20/07/12
The IT volunteer will spend at least 6 months working with Azafady in and around Fort Dauphin, Madagascar. They will be part of a team of local and international staff and volunteers developing and implementing sustainable development projects in the area. The successful applicant will be expected to work independently to meet the organisation's international media and communications needs. Example tasks include, identifying IT training needs within the NGO, developing courses to meet these, training on a 1:1 basis, trouble shooting difficulties in the day to day IT systems, advising on a broad range of IT systems, co-ordination of material for the web site, advising on IT for video or sound production to the projects, support in updating Google maps relating to project work.
For specific responsibilities, see the section below.
The volunteer will be fully integrated into the team giving them full access to projects, which currently include- school building, hygiene training, HIV education and establishment of sustainable livelihoods. For further details of the projects run by Azafady see www.madagascar.co.uk.
Duties and responsibilities:
The IT Volunteer will work across all departments on the following areas:
• Setting up and maintenance of the various computers used within the busy NGO office
• Setting up and support of email addresses for staff
• Troubleshooting difficulties in the day to day running of the IT system such as the all-important internet connection
• Advise on IT development
• Needs assessment on the training needs of staff regarding IT use and maintenance
• Developing a series of training modules for staff in Word, Excel, Internet, E-mail.
• Training staff in IT
• Co-ordinating website updates with staff across all departments
• Support to staff and volunteers on sound and video programmes and production
• Liaison with UK office on IT equipment procurement
Contract type: Volunteer
Contract duration: a minimum of 6 months
Location: Azafady, Fort Dauphin, Madagascar
Reporting to: Director of Operations
Requirements:
The successful applicant will:
• Have experience of IT preferably at an advisory level
• Demonstrate sound technical knowledge in areas of video and stills programmes and production
• Demonstrate interest in conservation and community development
• Have previous experience working to deadlines and criteria
• Ideally have previous experience living, working or travelling in a developing country, though is not essential
• Be fluent in English. A working knowledge of French is desirable but not essential
• Be capable and comfortable adapting to life in a least developed country with sometimes basic living conditions
• Be able to adjust to life in another culture and a foreign language, and be able to work at all times with cultural sensitivity
• Be able to financially support themselves for a minimum period of 6 months
• Have all necessary equipment to carry out the responsibilities outlined above
Country and organisation background:
Madagascar is the fourth largest island in the world. It has an ethnically diverse population of some 19 million people, and the number of inhabitants is increasing at a rate of about 3% per year. It is one of the world’s poorest countries, ranking 143/177 in the 2008-9 Human Development Report, with more than 70% of the population living below the poverty line.
Isolation of communities and lack of state capacity mean service delivery is extremely poor. Government educational services, extremely limited as they are across the island, rarely reach rural communities. State provided health facilities are seriously under-funded. Island-wide, among rural populations only 35% of people have improved water sources, and just 26% have adequate sanitation facilities (UNICEF, 2008).
Tolagnaro (or Fort Dauphin), where ONG Azafady is based, is an isolated town in the southeast of the island, in Anosy Region. The people of Anosy are one of the poorest ethnic groups in the country. Whilst the government has adopted a detailed strategy paper for poverty reduction, Anosy’s isolation means that little has changed. The region’s population suffers one of the lowest per capita incomes and highest rates of disease, infant mortality (34% in some communities) and illiteracy (over 80%). Diarrhoeal disease, malaria, respiratory and sexually transmitted infections are rife: as many as 3 in 10 children under 5 years old die from easily preventable diseases and illnesses. Average life expectancy is just 59 years, (UNICEF, 2006) and the mortality rate for those under five years is over one in ten (115/1000 live births, UNICEF, 2008 estimate).
Azafady has over 10 years experience of grassroots community development work. The organisation intervenes in Fort Dauphin and surrounding rural communities aiming to alleviate extreme poverty and protect a unique but greatly endangered environment by empowering the poorest people of the region to improve health and wellbeing and establish more sustainable livelihoods. At the heart of Azafady’s work is an integrated approach to community development sensitively built around what are directly expressed to be the most pressing needs of local populations and which maximises their participation. Project activities are focused on the fields of health and sanitation, livelihood diversification and natural resource management. All projects align with and contribute to achievement of the Millennium Development Goals and of the Madagascar Action Plan commitments in these sectors.
Application procedure
Send CV and cover letter to Lisa@azafady.org. Shortlisted applicants will be contacted by email. Interviews will take place with Madagascar team by phone and with the London team in person.
Deadline for application- 20/07/12
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